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quote:Originally posted by Dee Vapr:
WSB's was a singular, uncompromising vision.
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Besides the fact they differ massively as artists anyway - Solanas' concerns were more singular.
Quite aside from the real and stupid and logically impossible leap of equating feminist politis on one hand with throwaway misogyny on the other, have you even read the SCUM Manifesto? Do you know how many topics it roves over? And you just toally contradicted yourself, anyhow. How could Burroughs have a singular uncompromising vision if he wrote about a whole lot more stuff than Val?
Anyhow, my two cents: I love Bill. He's an inspiration. He's a complete pervert. He ws a junkie. He knew exactly what was going on. He hung out with Kathy Acker. He had a good grasp of what was going on. And he wrote some of the sexiest porn that exists.
He also had huge problems with women, shot his wife, was fairly and utterly queer (as if that has anything to do with either shooting Joan or being a misogynist, necessarily). He was cashed up and clever and his family got him out of difficulty with the law more than twice. And he was a cranky old bastard who only liked cats.
Y'know, the problem that I see is not Bill Burroughs, who went around and did his thing. The problem is that two generations now of young artsy kids have made him their guru and say things like 'he had a singular, uncompromising vision'. Christ. Have you ever taken yage or peyote? Singular and uncompromising are not where it's at, mah man.
(Oh, and if you haven't gotten into Burroughs but want to, read The Adding Machine and Queer and Junkie. The prose is slightly more.... 'accessible'.) |
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